I am back working on Encore 6. I took on another project that took over a year and I apologize for not being more transparent and for it taking so long.

I had worked for about 6 months trying to salvage the Encore 5 code. After many attempts, a lot of frustration, I have decided to throw away the 6 months of work and pretty much start over. The Encore 5 code was such a mess that it would take a year to fix it. The Mac code was still OS 9 code and that is why the MAC version died before the Windows version. Apparently they never attempted to convert the MAC version and eventually Apple deprecated enough code that Encore could not be run on a MAC. I remember back when Finale converted to OSX it took them 17 months and I took 6 months to convert Overture, so I know it was a difficult task.

My plan is to use a lot of Overture code inside Encore 6 while keeping the Encore 5 functionality. This means the file format will definitely change and of course this will lead to a few differences between Encore 5 and 6, but the change will allow for a much more stable Encore 6, that will be easy to upgrade and maintain.

Now of course everyone would like to have a date. I may have a demo version up and running by Thanksgiving and hopefully, something I can ship by Christmas that will allow users to open, edit, and save all their old Encore scores. If I am lucky, maybe even sooner.

Finally as soon as I have a working version, I’ll release it for users to get a taste of what is to come.

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